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The parents of two Perth women who vanished more than 20 years ago are demanding police investigate any potential link between their deaths and the Claremont serial killings. Picture: Colin Murty The Australian
THE parents of two Perth women who vanished more than 20 years ago are demanding police investigate any potential link between their deaths and the Claremont serial killings.
Kerry Turner, 18, vanished from Victoria Park on June 30 1991 after a night out with friends and her body was found in bush near Canning Dam a month later.
Parents John and Sue Turner have pointed to similarities between their daughter’s brutal unsolved murder and those of Jane Rimmer and Ciara Glennon.
Julie Cutler, 22, disappeared after a staff party at the Parmelia Hilton in 1988 and her car was found overturned in the ocean about 50m off Cottesloe Beach two days later. Picture suppliedSource:Supplied
Ms Rimmer and Ms Glennon also disappeared after a night out and their bodies were found in the bush.
Julie Cutler, 22, disappeared after a staff party at the Parmelia Hilton in 1988 and her car was found overturned in the ocean about 50m off Cottesloe Beach two days later.
Ms Cutler lived in Fremantle and regularly visited Claremont to go out with friends.
John and Sue Turner, whose daughter Kerry went missing from Victoria Park in 1991, in the early hours of the morning. Her body was found a month later near Canning Dam. Picture: Nic Ellis/The West AustralianSource:Supplied
He said police told him at the time of the Claremont murders that the cases were unlikely to be connected because Julie had disappeared eight years earlier, which appeared to fall outside the serial killer’s time frame.
However, that police theory came before recent advances in DNA testing.
Mr Turner was also told by police that it was unlikely that his daughter had been the victim of the Claremont serial killer.
Roger Cutler wants police to look into possible links with the Claremont serial killed after the disappearance of his daughter Julie. Picture: Nic Ellis/The West AustralianSource:Supplied
“I don’t know whether I was totally satisfied with the answer, and I think they have maintained that but I’m not sure,†he said.
Neither Mr Cutler nor Mr Turner have heard from police since Bradley Robert Edwards was charged with the wilful murders of Ms Rimmer and Ms Glennon, as well as two sex attacks, just over a week ago.
Both hoped police would investigate whether there was a link between Ms Turner’s death and the Claremont deaths and planned to contact them about that.
A police spokesperson would not comment because the matter is before the courts.